Nick Tonkin
Software Engineering Manager at Newfold Digital
Farmville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick Tonkin is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager and full-stack Perl engineer with over two decades of experience building data-driven, well-tested business systems and APIs. He leads cross-functional teams at Newfold Digital, blending hands-on development in Perl, Python, and React with AWS, Terraform, and pragmatic project and personnel management. Nick has a long history of architecting scalable distributed systems—from pioneering high-throughput ad networks in the 1990s to real-time dispatch engines and RESTful API bridges—and is a CPAN author and active contributor to the Perl ecosystem. He’s skilled at unifying disparate internal stacks into consistent interfaces, mentoring diverse experience levels, and translating stakeholder requests into prioritized, auditable delivery. Based in Farmville, VA, he combines deep legacy expertise with modern tooling and a knack for resurrecting and modernizing critical business logic that other teams thought was lost.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
51reputation
307reached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (62)
perl10
cpan9
solidworks9
jquery8
yadcf8
pager8
filter8
jquery-plugin8
tablesorter8
database-connector7
hugo7
dbi7
sorting7
data-structures6
metacpan6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
1nickt/ContactMyReps
Feb 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:24 pushes in 4 years 11 months
1nickt/Dancer2-Logger-LogAny
Sep 2017 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
perl-libraryloggingperllogging-enginedancer2
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